Matthew 5:29

Lust

²⁹ _i "If your right eye causes you to ₁ sin, _j pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

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Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched -

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Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Matthew 5:29

AndG1161 ifG1487 thyG4675 rightG1188 eyeG3788 offendG4624 thee,G4571 pluckG1807 itG846 outG1807, andG2532 castG906 it fromG575 thee:G4675 forG1063 it is profitableG4851 for theeG4671 thatG2443 oneG1520 of thyG4675 membersG3196 should perishG622, andG2532 notG3361 that thyG4675 wholeG3650 bodyG4983 should be castG906 intoG1519 hell.G1067

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Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

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